{"id":4751,"date":"2026-06-30T11:04:42","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:04:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/tourist-uses-itching-powder-in-battle-against-people-reserving-sunbeds\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T11:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T11:04:44","slug":"tourist-uses-itching-powder-in-battle-against-people-reserving-sunbeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/30\/tourist-uses-itching-powder-in-battle-against-people-reserving-sunbeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist uses itching powder in battle against people reserving sunbeds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-06-30 11:04:42<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A disgruntled holidaymaker turned to itching power in a battle against people getting up early to reserve sunbeds.<BR><br \/>\nTom Caunce, 31, from Southport wasn&#8217;t happy after seeing fellow tourists in Mallorca head down early to pool to leave their towel on a sunbed before heading back to bed, and he&#8217;s found an extreme way of tackling the problem, and shared the footage online.<BR><br \/>\nAs reported by the Mirror, he has targeted &#8220;repeat offenders&#8221;, and it&#8217;s something most people have experienced.<BR><br \/>\nHe said: \u201cI think we\u2019ve all experienced the frustration of trying to get a sunbed on holiday.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Many of us have accepted the 6am wake-up call just to have a chance of getting a decent spot. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;On my last holiday, I decided enough was enough and that it was time for a bit of playful payback.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nFor the first few days, he surveyed the situation, figuring out which guests had been repeatedly saving their spot.<BR><br \/>\nHe went down early, waiting for them to leave their towel, before sneaking downstairs to rub the itching power in.<BR><br \/>\nWhen a man finally returned at 1.30pm, around 6 or 7 hours later, Tom saw him start scratching before jumping into the pool.<BR><br \/>\nHe recalled: &#8220;He picked up the white towel and used it to dry himself, and the small irritation seemed to turn into a full-body scratch.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nTom insisted he &#8220;couldn&#8217;t stop laughing&#8221;, and described the holidaymaker&#8217;s reaction as &#8220;priceless&#8221;.<BR><br \/>\nThe videos have gone viral, but social media uses are divided on the stunt.<BR><br \/>\nSome of described it was &#8220;incredibly strange&#8221; and &#8220;not ok&#8221;, while others support his actions.<BR><br \/>\nSomeone else commented: &#8220;Oh, I love this! Just make sure you don\u2019t do it to people who are just swimming and not reserving.\u201d<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-06-30 11:04:42 A disgruntled holidaymaker turned to itching power in a battle against people getting up early to reserve sunbeds. Tom Caunce, 31, from Southport wasn&#8217;t happy after seeing fellow&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4751"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4753,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4751\/revisions\/4753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}